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Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War. Winner of the National Book Award, and a Michael L. Printz Honor winner. (Sequel: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation, vol. II: Kingdom on the Waves)

By Draper, SharonTwo fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured
servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to
Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.

By Anderson, Laurie HalseIn 1793 Philadelphia, 16-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.

Fourteen-year-old Rachel Marsh, an indentured servant in the Boston household of John and Abigail Adams, is caught up in the colonists' unrest that eventually escalates into the massacre of March 5, 1770.

By Elliott, LauraFollows the life of thirteen-year-old Nathaniel Dunn, from
May 1774 to December 1775, as he serves his indentureship with a music
teacher in Williamsburg, Virginia, and witnesses the growing rift
between patriots and loyalists, culminating in the American Revolution.

By Lavender, WilliamFourteen-year-old Jane Prentice, orphaned daughter of an English earl,
arrives in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1776 to find her family and
her loyalties divided over the question of American independence.